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This was not what I had envisioned when I started working on this spread, but once again my mistakes led me in another direction than the one I intended. And I must say I absolutely love it!
My plan was to create a page, not a two page spead, in blues and greens, so I started of by ink blending the right hand side of this spead in those colours, but somehow I managed to mess it up completely. I didn't know how to save the page and thought the only way was to paint it over with black paint, but I didn't want to create another black background. My eyes caught sight of an ink pad with Distress oxide in Vintage photo laying on my table, and I grabbed it and started swiping it across the page. It looked aweful! In a desperate attempt to clean it of I grabbed a baby wipe and started rubbing on the Oxide ink. I didn't get it all but it matted the colour. The left side of the spread looked very bare next to the brown mess on the right side so I took the baby wipe, full of oxide ink, and rubbed across the left side. It left the most beautiful wood effect look on the page, and I almost wish I had stopped there (or at least taken a photo of it). The right side was still a brown mess so I decided to try to salvage it by using some white Distress paint over it, which I applied using a brayer. Then I just went for it with stamps and inks. I had no clue on what to create until I saw, in the corner of my eye, my Vicky Papaioannou's ephemera pack with those green wellies. As Vicky I planted some flowers in my wellies, and finished the spread by adding some rubbons, some splatters and a sentiment to the spread. The sentiment " To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrows" is a quote by Audrey Hepburn.
Art journal: "Create Happiness" Mixed Media Journal by Vicky Papaioannou/Stamperia
Paint and ink: Distress Paint "Picket Fence", Distress Oxide "Vintage Photo" and Distress Ink "Black Soot" by Tim Holtz/Ranger, Brilliance "Moonlight white" by Tsukineko
Ephemera: "Create Happiness" ephemera pack and Rub Ons by Vicky Papaioannou/Stamperia
Sentiment: DYMO LetraTag
If you've made it this far, reading all my text, I'm truly impressed!
Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate you taking the time!
Take care, have fun and keep crafting!
Jane
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